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JAS. LOWBBY * 8. P, WItSOS,
A‘FTQRKfBYS at LAW,
of Tioga, .Potter and.
AtoKean coantjei. - .,■ [ Wellsboro, 3an. 1,1863.]
A TTOiwfEY & COUNSELLOR At LAW,
Jla. Coudersport, Pa,-, will attend the several Courts
tn Potter »aii Mol£e»D--eoaDtieB. All business en
trusted to his pare willreoelvo'prompt attention. He
has the agepcj.of .largf tracts of good settling land
and will attend of taxes on any lairds
Jn said eoaotiea. ■ Jon. 28,1563.*
HOUSE,
- H Y.
MaJ. A. FIELD, J..X ..Proprietor.
/QUESTS. t»kctt.!to,and from‘the Depot free
Vjfof* charge. . 1 ! [Jari. I, 1863,]
PESrSsVtVAS.IA HOUSE,
CORNER 0? MAIN J 6tREEI AND TUE AVENUE,
Welfifcoro, £a.
J. V. 81G0NY,....
TpHIS popular Hotel, having been re-fitted
X and re-furnishedthroughout, is now open to the
public as a first-class house. [Jan. I, '1863.]
IZiAK AVALTOS HOUSE,
Gaines, TPtga County, Fa.
JI. 0. VEKM1LTJ5A,.......... r ..Proprietor.
THIS is a new hp»el located within easy ac
cess of the best. B£ii(ng and hunting grounds in
Northern Pennsylvania.'! No pains .will bo spared for
the accommodation of; pleasure seekers and the trav
elling public. . .[Jaa. 1, 1863.]
SSL WATCHtf'i CLOCKS AN®
J HVELRI !
Repaired at i CO'S. STORE, by the
jabaeriber, in the best|Wfipner. and at as low prices as
4he same work «an he dode for, hyuny first rate prac
tical workman ic the Slat-e*
iVellaboro, July
WECLSBORO HOTEL..
B/B. HOLiX)AY i ... 1; Proprietor.
TUB Proprietor having aguia taken of
the above Hotel, spare no pains to insure
'the-comfort of guests a|id the traveling public. At
tentive waiters alwaysTerms'reasonable. ,
WellsUoro, Jan. 21 ■ "
%. 4? b' LE V,
Watches, &c., &c..
REPAIRED «At' OJ.D PRICES.
POST BUILDING,
. KO. 5, jjfA’JO-y BUUCK.
Wellsbcro, May-20,i16&3. 1
E. Kr ietACH,'
BARBER & |H AIR- I )UESSER,
shop OVER C ; if. MORE,
MO. 4, Ulte'EON BLOCK.
Wellsboro, June ' *
flittVK ASA FEKW VIOKE.
BAILEY
HAVE had thcifl,*o)lll tluiJ-nughlv repaired
mvd are rceeirrVg?fresh ground flour, lecd,
meal; Au„ every day 4;o)cir sturu m town.
Cash paid for alWkipita.bf griun.
• . p,. j WUIpilT 1 BAILEY.
Wcll.-boro, April-flflytfata. "
“WooTCardi4gi|nd Cloth Dressing.
THE subscriber Sdjfiirms bis uld customers
' and the public gefiertally tbat he is prepared to
card wool and dress cUjtli at' the old stand, the coining
season, baling the services of Mr. J. PEKT,
competent and expei-i-enced workman, aTwPalso in-
to give bis personal atluntion to the nutmegs,
he will warrant all work done at bis shop. "
Wool carded at five per pound, and Cloth
dressed at from teff to [twenty cents per yprd as per
■color and finish. J* I* JACKSON.
Well&buro, May G,
n VKBLC SHOP.
lAM ndw-receivirip; STOCK of ITALIAN
and RUTLAND -J&AKBLB, (bought with cash)
and um prepared to' BKCtsrufaciure all kinds of
TOM TONES
a»d MONUMEX PS 0.-' iHje lowest pficcs.
’ HAKVEY ADAMS..-ia-my umlioriiul agent and
will sell Stone at the'. Mue prices as at the shop.
/ WE HAVE PUT ONE PJiIOE.
Tipga, May 20, Ififi ; If. - A. D. COLE.
JOmfcA. ROY,
TXEALELIN Dliufcs AND MEDICINES,
XJ Chemical., VartilA. Paints, Djes, Soaps, Per
famcry. Brushes, Glasjj,. Putty, Goods,
Pure Wine?, Brandies; and olher Liquors for
medical use. Agent fdii the sdle of all the best Pat
ent Medicines of ibe diy. Medicines warranted gen
nine and of the - . .
BEST [QUALITY.
\ Physician's accurately compounded.
The best Petroleum Oil* which is superior to any other
Tor burning in •KorosvupLamps. Also, all other kinds
of Oils usuolly kept ifl.'A first class Drug Store.
FANCY in packages all ready
compounded, for the Jfc of private families. Also,
Pure Loaf Sugar for ri&lical compounds.
Wellsboro. June 2-4, bS63-Iy.
STATE NOltltlAl* SCHOOL,
[For District, Pa-]
. Hand
Mansfield Seminary*
Rev. D. A. 31.. Principal.
’Afr. . Assistant.
.Mrs, H. S.
Miss 11. A. Assistant.
Assistant,'Teacher in Model School.
Assistant,Jtfcd’Teacher of Music.
The Full Term of institution will open Sopt.
‘2d. The \V.inter Tertl , Tbe Spring Term,
34*r<Ai Kth* 18fi4. Eiichltenn to continue thirteen
ewceks. .; ; -*
A Normal School C*««ae of study for graduation,
.etnbraciog.twt) years, U adopted.
Students for the Nor|hal Course, andforibe Clossi
,cal Department, are solicited;
For particular?, oiWr*s}> R C v, \T. D. Tatlow, Mans
£eld, Tioga Coupty Bend for a Circular.
' .-i: i W, COCHRAN,
the Board of Trustees.
WM. HOLLAND,'jperetary.
Mansfield, Asguet/ij,
Insurance Agency.
THE Insurance Company of North America hove
appointed the umersigned »o agent for Tkitra
bounty nad rieinrty.’," t
As the high character anti standing of .this Compa-
BJ give tie aisarancd't-f jfull proteelion to owners of
property agaum the hazard of fire, I solicit with con
fidence a liberal share; «f Vhe business of the county.
i7slo'n 0 Z“ ir T? iß f^ )nl ' twl in ”«• “» «P i,al
is 55«n,000, and Us a%sti in ISM as pereUtement
Ist Jan. of that year ,«|551254,71g 81. ' ; '
CHARLES PLATT,,;.?..; .'...'...Secretary.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President.
Offle# of the Company 332 Walnut Street
Agent Har
jrlhbars.pn.
JOHN V 7. OXIBBNSE7, ■ ■
, for riognCoanty.Pa,
July 15, 1J63. , , ,>.*
VOL..X.
THE THE PEOPLE.
A Poem Delivered Before, the Phi Beta ; Kappa So~
eiety of Hartford Univereity.
The dram's wild roar awakes tbd land-,* the fife li
calling shrill j
Ten thousand starry banners blaze on- town, and bay,
,* and bill;
Oar crowded streets are throbbing with the soldiers'
measured tramp ;
Among oar bladed cornfields gleam the white tents of
the camp. -- *
The thunders of the rifling war hash Labor's drowsy
. t hobi/ . *■ ; t , ~-,,
And heavy to the ground the first dark drops of bat*
tle<com©.’ . '
The souls of men flame np anew; the narrow heart
expands
And woman brings her patient faith to nerve her
eager bands.
Thank God! we are not burifed yet, thoogh long in
trance we lay.
Thank God! the lathers need not blush to own their
suns to-day.
.Proprietor.
Oh ! sad and slow the weeks went by; each held his
anxious breath.
Like erne who watts, in helpless fear, some sorrow
great as death.
Oh! scarcely was there faith Id God, nor any trust in
man,
While fast along the Southern sky' the blighting
shadow ran.
It yelled the stars, one after one; it bushed the pa-
triot's song,
And stole from men the sacred sense that parteth
right from wrong.
Then a red flash, the lightning across the' darkness
broke,
And with a voice that shook the land the guns of
Sumter spoke :
Woke, sons of heroes, wake! The age of heroes
dawns Igain : - ’
Troth takes in band her ancient sword, and calls her
loyal mfet.
Lo! brightly o’er the breaking day shines Freedom’s
A. R. HASCT.
hidy star.
Peace cannot cure the sickly time. All hail, the
healer, War!
Old Independence Hall gave back the thundering
echo then,
And foremost tit their country's call, sprang forth the
of Penn.
.That call whs beard by Plymouth Rock ; ’twas hoard
in Boston Bay ;
Then up the piny streams of Maine sped on its ring-
ing way.
New Hampshire’s rocks, Vermont’s green hills, it
kindled into flume ;
Rhode Island felt be 4 ® mighty soul burning her little
frame :
The Empire City started up, her golden fetters rent,
Ami, meteor like, across the North the fiery message
* M*nt i
Over the breezy prairie land, by bluff and lake it ran.
Till Kansas bent his arm, and laughed to find biumlt
a man ;
Then on. by cabin and by camp, by stony wastes and
sands, i
It ran exultant down the sea where the Gulden City
stand?.
And whercMi'er the summons came, there rose an an
gry drb,
As when upon a rocky const a stormy tide comes in.
fclruightwny the father’s gathered voice, straightway
the sons «r»v f e,
With flushing cheek, ns when the East with
red current glows. '
Hurrah ! the long de-pair is past ; our fading hopes
renew ;
The fog is lifting from the land, and 10, the ancient
, blue! ‘
We learn the secret of the deeds the sires hate band
ed down,
To fire the youthful soldier’s real, and tend his green
renown
Who lives for country, through his arm feels all her
forces flow,
’Tis ea-*y to bo brave for truth, as for the rose to blow.
Oh ! Law, fair form of Liberty, God's.light is on thy
brow.
Oh 1 Liberty, thou soul of Law, God’s very self art
thou !
One the clear river’s sparkling flood tbat clothes the
bank with green ;
And one the line of stubborn rock that holds the wa
ter in—
Friends, whom we cannot think apart, seeming each
'other’s foe •
Twin flowers upon a single stalk with equal grace
that grow.
Oh I fair ideas, wo write your names across our ban
ner's fold:
For you, the tlpggard’s brain is fire; for you, the
- coward bold.
Oh ! daughter of the bleeding past! Oh ! hope the
prophets saw!
God give us Law in Liberty, and Liberty in Law I
Full many a heart Is aching with mingled joy and
pain,
For those who go so' proudly forth and may not come
again ;
And many a heart is aching for those it leaves behind,
Aa a thousand tender histories throng in upon the
•mind.
The-old men bless the young men and praise their
■bearing high ;
The'women in the doorways stand to wave them
bravely by.
Ope Ufrew her arms about her boy, and said, “ Good
bye, my son;
God help thee do the valiant deeds thy father would
have done.”
One'held up to a bearded moo a little child to kiss,
And suid, " I shall not be alone, for tby dear love and
this/’
And one, a-rosebud in her band, leant at a soldier’s
side;
“Tby country weds thee first,” she said; “bo I thy
second bride.” .-
Oh! mother?, when, around yotfr hearths yo count
your cherished ones,
Atjd miss frum the enchanted ring the flower of all
your sons;
Oh ! wives, when o’er the cradled child ye bend at
evening's fall,
And voices which the bearrt can bear across the dis
tance call;
Oh I maidens, when, in the sleepless nights ye ope
the little case,
And look till ye can look no more upon the proud
young face,
Not only pray the Lord of Life, who measures mortal
breath,
To bring the absent back ansoathed out of the firo
of death ;
Oh? pray with tbat ■divine content which God’s best
favor draws,
That, whatsoever lives -or dies. Ho eavo His holy
' cause!
So out of shop and fenn-houso, from shore and in
land glen, ...
Thick os the bees in clover time, are swarming armed
men;
Along the dusty roads In baste the eagpr columns
come,
With flash of awprd and musket's glenm, the bngle
and the dftnn.
Ho! comrades, see the 'starry flag) broad-waving at
our bead.'
Ho! comrades, mark the thnder.light on the dear em
blems spread; '
Oof fathers* blood has hallowed it; *)Sm fcart of their
renown; 4
And palsfed be the caitiff hand would pluck its glo
ries down!
HarrtfbJ hurrah 1 it Is on*.home, where'er thy colors
flv J J (
We wiiTwilhtbeo~tire victory, or In thy eb'addw idle 1
Oh! women, drive the rattling loom, and galherln
the hay; f ? !'
For altthe.y'onUi worth love and Inlth are marshalled
i for the fray. »
rn the Sjctcnafon of tfce area of jFreehom anh the Sprrah of feeaftbgj&ef ortn.
WHIIiE jTIIBEE' SHALL BE A 'WRONG UKMGtITED,, ANO "UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN”’ SHALL CHAsi, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
Select
BY ELDEIDQE JEFFERSO* CUTLER.
WELISBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, BA.,
Southward the boats are harrying, with'bannora witie
nnfurlod, ■ . - - ■ '" u - i
From whhre the stately-Hndkpn'JJpet* 'tho wealth Of
half the world;
From 1 where, amid faia clustered idea. Lake Huron’s
waters'gleam; -
From where the Mississippi pours an unpolluted
stream;
From’ wberd Kentucky's fields of corn bend in the
southern air;
From broad Ohio's luscious Tinea; from Jersey’s or
ohardafair;
From where, between his fertile slopes, Nebraska's
river's run;
Frora Peonsylrnnia's iron hills; from woody Oregon;
And Massachusetts Jed the ran, as in the dayeof yore,
Arid gore her reddest blood to-cleanse tho stones of
. Baltimore. -
Ohl. mothers,platers, daughters,spare the tcara ye
fain wohld'shed ;'
Who seem to die in such a cause, ye cannot call them
dead.
They live upon the lips of men, in picture, bust and
song,
And nature fcdda them in her heart, and keeps them
safe from Wrong.
Oh! length of days is net a boon the brave man
proyeth for ;
There are a thousand evils worse than death or any
' war— '
Oppression, wifti his iron strength, fed on the souls
of men, ,'
And License, with the hungry brood that haunt bis
ghastly den.
But like bright stars ye fill the eye; adoring hearts
ye draw;
Ob ! sacred grace of Liberty; ob ! majesty of Lav.
Hurrah ! the drams are beating; the fife is coiling
shrill;
Ten thousand starry banners flame on town, and bay,
and hill;
The thunder’s of the rising war drown Labor's peace
ful bum ;
Thank Qod that we hare lived to see the saffron
morning come—
The morning of the battle call, to every soldier dear!
Ob, joy! theory is “Forward!” Oh, joy! the fue is
near f
For all the crafty men of peace have failed to purge
the land; /
Hurrah! the ranks of battle close; God takes His
cause in hand !
Female Costumes—Past and Present.
The London Morning Star remarks upon past
and present fashions as follows :
“ "We do not seem likely ever to come to any
basis of agreement ns tn the ridiculous in man
ner* and in costume. It would appear to be
the fate of the human race that its. little clans .
blmll always seem grutef-que and ludicrous to
each other. If Japanese or Siamese or any
Annaniitc ambassadors should vihit this end of
Kuiope fi\«* hundred vein? hone**, they will
fumi'di ju*t :ia much food,for laughter — arid
I ut for Oi iema! gravity may find ju-t as much
to laugh—a- at this day. N«v, it beeius
to he the do- m of each gf Deration that the une
winch Mieceedis if stiall think its wnyn und more
especially «N habits, utterly ludicrous and ab
surd, What fight-on earth is nu-re droll and
preposterous than the plates in a hook of fash
ions of twent}-flw’, nay fifteen, nay tap years
ago? Look at tin* coats which hunting beings
wore induced to w?nr then—the boot-, she hate,
the neckties ! Can it be that rational creatures,
nay, that we uurelves, did really consent to
make such gnj sof ourselves; and is it possible
that any two men thus bedizened could ba\e
met without mutual laughter?
“ As fur the female costume of earlier days,
it utterly defies description. Observe in uny
old bookshop an engraving of some great ac
tress as she appeared in the character ol liH
videra or Mufdmia, with a waist immediately
under her arms, the body of her dress repre
sented by a mere zone or bandage drawn tight
ly across, and the skirt, a long, close, lanky
garment like a bathing-gown, or the popular
costume of a ghost, and mantel bow any hu
man eyes could ever have moistened to the
sounds of pathos issuing from the lips of such
a fright! Or to come a great deal later down,
let any one just glance at the engravings in
the earlier issues of Dicken’s works.. Kale
Nickleby used to be a favorite of ours once,
and we thought her a charming creature. We
glanced at her the other day as she appears in
an old volume of ‘ Nicholas Nickleby,' and we
felt ashamed ever to have acknowledged one
twinge of sentiment towards such a dowdy.-
Her vast coal-scuttle bonnet, protruding a foot
and a half from her forehead, like the Druse
woman’s horn—only uglier by far-—is such as
Mrs. Gump of 18C3 would be ashamed to put
on even for a. midnight visit. Her dress,
perked out behind by some mysterious agency,
falls after this one protrusion,straight down in
the shape of a sentry-box.
“llow could we of to-day feel anything but
contempt for such a costume, we whose refined
eyes are delighted by the charming and rational
spoon-bonnet, with its bocage. of evergreens and
roses; whose civilized and enlightehed taste is
gratified by the sight of the majestic crinoline
so admirably adapted to the human figure, so
sylphlike, so convenient to the wearer and all
around, so secure against dangerous accident,
so natural and beautiful in its undulations, to
marvelously contrived to satisfy at bnce grace,
delicacy and comfort ? Yet exquisite as these
costumes seem to us, and deeply as we regret
that Phidias never had an opportunity of im
mortalizing in marble the outlines of a crino
lined female, we cannot disguise from Ourselves
the melancholy fact that an irreverent genera
tion yet to come will mock at the costume of
to-day as we do to that of yesterday. All men.
and still mure all women, think all men and
all women ridiculous bat themselves. The Pa
risians need not satirize themselves through
the mouth of an Oriental Their
sons and daughters will hereafter laugh, quite
simply and naturally, over a representation of
the, most gorgeous state ceremony, the most
bewitching costume of to-.day.”
It is stated that green tarlatan is dyed with
arsenite of copper to such an extent as to make
the handlings sewing or wearing ofit dangerous.
A gentleman writing to the London Times,
says four of hie maidservants, while working
upon articles of this fabric;, were attacked with
nausea, .bleeding ofthe nose and irritation of
the wyes.' .Tarlatan ie likely to be tabooed.
Jl man ont West, who owns a large farm,
says be stack 9 up all the bay fee can ont of
4<jor« and ihVremainder he put* id the barn.
JKCsccUang.
EMESMY MORKING, DECEMBER 9, 1863.
aaolUitaU
A CONVERTED REBEL.
The Hon.E. W. Oantt of Arkansas, a well?
known citizen' of that Stale, who has served in
in the Rebel army and twice beeti taken pris
oner by our forces, has issued a long address to
the people of Arkansas, from which wa copy
as follows:
“Wz are whipped—fairly "beaten. Our ar
mies are melting and ruin approaches us. Will
continuing this struggle help us ? Every bat
tle we might gain ought to wring tears from,
the hearts of Southern men 1 We are just
that much weaker, that, much nearer our final
ruin. Anguish and sorrow and desolation
meet ns whdrever we turn.' The longer the
struggle the more of it.
“ Don’t let yourselves be deceived with the
hope that the United States will abandon the
struggle. They can never do it. They have
toiled end spent too much to see tho solution of
the problem, and not foot up the figures. They
scarcely feel the war at home. Their cities are
more populous and thrifty than ever. Bor
every man that dies or gets killed in battle,
two emigrate to the country. Their villages
and towns, their fields and country, flourish ns
fresh as ever. They could sink their armies
to-day, and raise new levies to crush us; and
not feel it.
“ How is it with us ? The lost man is in the
field, hall our territory overrun, our cities gone
to wreck—peopled alone by the aged, the lame
and halt, and women and children ; while de
serted towns, and. smoking mins, and planta
tions abandoned and laid waste, meet us on all
sides, and anarchy and ruin, disappointment
and discontent, lower over all the land.
“ lla\e no hopes from a divided North. It
is on the surface —scarcely goes to tbe bottom
of their politics, much less shaking the great
masses of their determined people, llemem
her, too, that much of the South is with them.
There is no division as far ns fighting us is con
cerned. The mildest of them simply proposes
peace by reconstruction. That rejected, they
are to press us with redoubled energy. Let us
not, after all our misfortunes and blunders,
construe the struggles between politicians fur
place into sympathy for (lurches. But how
could they propose peace? Who would bring
I tie message ? To w hum would it he delivered ?
And should the prof be made'and reject
ed, we are that much worse off for it. We
must propose fur we ought to Know when
we have got enough of the thing.
“ I am «sk*d if Mr. Lincoln’s Emancipation
proclamation will stand. It you continue the
hti uggle, certainly. He has the physical force
at his d ; sposal to carry it out. If you cease
now, you mnv nuve all in your hand**, or com
promise on gradual emancipation. But let, 1
beseech you, the negro no lunger stand in the
way of i he happiness und safety of friends and
kindred.
“The changes of sentiment upon this ques
tion in the South have been curious. Not
many years since, it was by nu means unusual
fur the press and public men, as well as for the
people generally, in the South, that
tdavery wa* an evil, and regret that it should
ever h-ive existed : expressing, however, no
disposition or desire to be rid of it. Yet, a few
years more—the demand for c ‘tton having in
creased, the price nf negroes having advanced,
and the agitation of the slavery question having
increased in viiulencc —finds us defending sla
very us a divine institution. VtJioic $ IttTwe,
and other Southern papers and periodical?,
with Senator Hammond of South Carolina,
were prominent in this defense. Iheir object
was to educate the Southern mind in this be
lief. Such a course bus been vital to the exis
tence of slavery ; -because, to concede that ne
gro slavery was morally wrong, was virtually
to concede the whole argument to the Abol
itionists. As the controversy warmed, we be
came sensitive. And so morbidly so, that the
North might have threatened with \mpunity to
deprive us of horses, or other property ; yet
the whole South would bo ablaze if some fa
natic took one negro. Such was public senti
ment S mth, at tbe commencement of this most
unfortunate and bloody struggle. But revolu
tions shake up men’s thoughts, and put them
in different channels. I have recently talked
with Southern slaveholders from every State.
They ore tired 1 * of negro slavery, and I believe
they could make more clear money,-and live
more peaceably, without than with it. As for
the non-slaveholder of the South, I honestly
thought the struggle was for him more than for
hia wealthy neighbor —that to free the negro
would reduce to comparative slavery the poor
white man. I now regret, tfiut instead of a
war to sustain slavery, it had qot been a strug
gle at the battot-box to colonize it. This will
clearly be the next struggle.
“Let us, fellow-citizens, endeavor to be calm.
Let us look these new ideas, and our novel po
sition, squarely in the face. We fought for
negro slavery. We have lost. We may have
to do without it. The inconvenience will be
great for awhile. The loss heavy. This, how
ever, is already well nigh accomplished. Yet,
behind this dark cloud is a silver lining. If
not for us, at least for our children. In the
place of these bondsmen will come an immense
influx of people fpom all parts, of the world,
bringing with them their wealth, arts and im
provements, and lending their talents and sin*,
ews to iDcretßS"our aggregate wealth, Thrift
and trade, and a common destiny, wiH'bind us
together. Machinery ic |he hills of Arkansas
will reverberate - to the mbstocf machinery in
'New England, and the whirr of Georgia spin
dles will meet responsive echos upon the slopes
of the far-off Pacific. Protective tariffs, if
needed, will stretch in their influences from the
Lakes; to the Guff, .and from ocean to ocean,
bearing alike, at least, equally upon Arkangian
and Vermonter, and upon Georgian and Cal
ifornian. ' Difference of section ahd local senti
ihent will wear away and be-forgotten,-and the
next- generation he more bumogenoua and
united than any since the ‘days of the .Revolu
tion. And the descendants of those bloody
times, will read, with aa ,much .pride and little
jealousy, of these battles of their fathers, is
tlio English and Scotch absdendsnts^of-the
heroes of Floddeb-6»l<t read of vteif wetttal.
achievements in-itbe glowing lines of Scott, or.
as the descendant* of highland and lowland
chiefs, to their fathers conflicts in the
simple’strains of the rustic Burns. ,
“Lei us five in hope; my ‘ grief-stricken
brother, that the day is not' far distant when
Arkansas will rise from the ashes of her deso
lation to start on a path of higher destiny than
with negro slavery she ever could have reached-:
while the reunited government, freed from this
cankering sore, will be more vigorous and
powerful, and-mpre thrifty, opulent and happy
than' thongh the soorge of war had never des
olated her fieldB,;ormade sorrowful herhearth
stonjesi • , ...
“ The sooner we lay down our arms and
quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner our days
of prosperity will return.
“ I hesitated long,'my fellow-citizens, before
I determined to issue this address. I dislike to
be abused and slandered. But, more than all,
dislike to live under a cloud with those friends
who have not yet reached my stand-point.
And, besides, all f possess is in the Confeder
ate lines. Their leaders will deprive my family
of slaves, home, property —debts due me—in a
word, reduce them from competence and!
ease to penury. Aside from what I-have in
side the Confederate lines, I could not pay fori
the paper this address is written upon. But it;
may all go. Did I desire future promotion, t
and could bring my conscience to it, 1 would!
do, like the Johnsons; safe from bullets and 1
hardships themselves, they assist in bolding
you on to this hopeless nhd ruinous struggle,
and, at the end of the conflict,- will come hack
and say, “Island j rith you to the last! Honor
mt and mine I” God deliver me from snoh
traitors to humanity, and to the interests of our
bleeding people 1 To me the path of duty is
plain. It is to lend my feeble aid to stop this
useless effusion of blood. And, though it beg
gar my family, and leave me no ray of hope
fur the future, I shall follow it.
41 1 have witnessed the desolation of the
Southern States from one end to the other.
This hopeless struggle but widens it. Each
day makes now graves, new orphans, and new
mourners 1 Each hour flings into this dreadful
whirlpool more of wrecked hopes, broken for
tunes and anguished hearts! The rich have
mostly fallen. The pour have drunk, deep of
the cup of sorrow, while surely, und not slow
ly, the tide of min, in resistless
cepe towards the middle chases 1 3 A f-w
more campaigns and they will form a part of
the general wreck ! Each grave und each tear,
each wasted fortunejind broken heart, puts u
that much further off from the object of the
struggle, and that much further off from peace
and happiness.
‘‘Viewing it thus, the terrible question was
presented to me, as to whether I should con
tinue my lot in .an enterprise so fruitless and
so full of woe, and help hold the mas-c.- of the
people on to this terrible de-pctisni of Dau-,
where only ruin awaits 4 them, whether I
should he a quiet observer of it ail, or lastly,
whether i should assist in saving the remnant
of you from the wreck.
“ 1 have chosen the hitter. I*h ill send this
addiess to every - hill and corner of the St n« #
to the citizen and soldier, at hi nn j or in p b
on, and shall send with it my priuri t" Al
mighty God'to arrest them in their \ atliwav of
blood and rum. Why trust Davis longer?
II id he’twice our resources he would soil f.u).
With success he would be a despot. But the
whole thing is tumbling to pieces. Soldiers
are leaving disgusted and disheartened, and
whole States have gone hack to their home in
the National galaxy. Maryland and Delaware
will never again be shaken. Kentucky has
entrenched her-.cH in the Union behind a
wall of bayonets in the hamb of her own stur
dy sons. Missouri b as firmly set in the Na
tional galaxy as Massachusetts. Tennessee,
tempest-tos.-ed and bolt-men, under the guide
of her great pilot, steers for her old-nioonng,
and will be safely anchored before the leaves
fall: while the rays of light from the old North
State, flashing out fitfully from her darkness
aerbss the troubled waves, shows that she stirs,
is Dot lost, but is struggling to rejoin her sis
ters. None of these States u*ill ever join the
South again. Then, with crippled armies—
with devastated fields —with desolate cities—
with disheartened soldiers, and worse than all,
with weak and corrupt leaders, what hope is
left to the few remaining States, but especially
to poor oppressed and downtrodden Arkansas ?
None I Belter get our brothers home while
they ore left to us. Open the way for the re-
Xurh of husbands, fathers and s6ns, and bind
op the broken links of the old Union. The
peqple muat act to do this. 1 tell you now, in
grief and pain, that the leaders don’t care for
your blood. Your sufferings move them nut.
The tears and wails of your anguished and be
reaved ones fall on hearts ol flint! While they
can make a dollar or wear an epaulette, they
are content. Finally, with gjrief-stricken and
sorrowful heart, I implore mothers, sisters,
and daughters to nil their arts,
in saving their loved ones from this terrible
eoorge ere rain overtakes you and them irre
trievably I While God gives me strength,
daunted by no peril, and swerved by no consid
eration of self, I shall give you my feeble aid ! *
Hints to Parents. —Few parents realize how
much their children may be taught at hopie by
devqting a few minutes to their instruction ev
ery day. Let n parent make a comp mom of
bis child, converse with him familiarly, put to
him questions, answer inquiries, communicate
facts, the result 6f his reading or observation,
awaken hie curiosity, explain difficulties, the
meaning of things, and the reason of things—
all. this in an easy playful manner, without
seeming to impute a task, and lie
be astonished at the progress which will be
•made. The experiment is soisimple that none
need hesitate about its performance.
j“Wßi.p, Sambol; how do you like your new
place?” ;
“Oh berry well;-massa.”*
“What.did you| have for. breakfast this mor
ning?” Why, you rojsseshiled throe eggs
„fojt herself An d ;g^j} ; nie de bro|f.’',
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NO. 16
[From Dennett’s Herald, Not. 6,]
A VOICE FROM HELL.
One of the most beautiful stories of Holy
Writ is that of the temptation of Jesus, St;
Matthew tells as that Jesus was led by the Spir
it into the wilderness, and there the tempter
came to him, but was repulsed and rebuked.
“ Again,” says St. Matthew, “ the Devil taketli
him up into an exceeding high mountain, and
sbeweth him all the kingdoms of. the world,
and the glory of them, and saith unto him, Alt
these will I give tbeo if thou wilt fail down
and worship me. Then saith Jesus onto him,
Get thee hence, Satan; fur it is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy-God. and him only
sbalt thou serve. Then the Devil leaveth him,
end, behold, angels came and ministered unto
him.”
Nearly .nineteen centuries after this wonder
ful event we hud this same Satan, in the form;
of a Brooklyn parson, troubling the world as
he troubled Jesus upon the mount. His tail
and his horns are concealed beneath the nppar- 1
rel of the period ; but his infernal spirit is as
evident as ever. He has caused wars and con-,
fusion, through the agency of this Brooklyn
-parson and other parsons of thafstamp, in this
chosen lend, which was once the most happy, -
the most peaceful and the most powerful upon
the face of the earth. Now, incarnated in the
. body of Beecher, he has crossed the Atlantis
and is trying to set ell England by the ears.
Selfishly speaking, we wish him suoess.
While he is busy there, we may posaiUy be
able to repair damages here. Satan is a hard
worker ; but he is not omnipotent, and cannot
raise the devil in more than one country at a
lime, if God and good men are working against
him. England has been tampering with etil.
for a long while past, and deserves all that Sa- I
tan'can give her. While she is in agony we
may he permitted to escape. It fellows, there
fore, that England's extremity will be our op
portunity, and that the ti-il of Satan to Lon-'' i
don will aid the Union cause.
Mr. Beecher is a true .satanic parson. Uis
Christianity in a satanic humbug. Ills church
Ir a satanic church. Uis followers are follow
ers of Satan. Ilia disciples go to a eatanio
school, lie offers them the political woild and
the glory of it if the? will full diwn and wor
ship him and his master, lie is nor,.-indeed,
the l>e\i 1 himself. That honor is resencd for
Wemhll Phillips. But the Devil pusse>°s him,
tr-ivels with him and actuates him. The Devil
hc-tows upon him that moving eloquence, that
astonishing command °f language, that ability
to raise a row at any moment and in any place,
for which hi- admirers give him so much cred
it. This explains his supeiiority as a diplo
mat to th»- \\ i k<-ff, Jew it and Weed,
and even to his Grace Archbishop
These j.'*rs*-nag«‘R have been to Europe; but
they iKvi.mplislod Ut'le or nothing, because
they did not h.ive the D< \;l with tfotn. Some
of them were accompanied by Mammon, oth
ers by Mummery ; hut none u! them had the
realD*ul. Beecher unduub’edly has. lie de
tided a hide imp of Satan to manage his week
ly paper during his absence, and took the gen
uine Lucifer as his traveling c mipaniun. Ilia
mlu-nt in England was mark-d by an earth
.quake. Ihs speech produced a mrral
1 earthquake. If lie does not involve the Brit
i"h i.-les in Pome tremendous disaster before
his return, it will be because tin* English are
tin* itiii-l luck? people upon the globe.
One of the daily organs of Satan in this city
ascribes to the Satanic parsons “ intense pas
sion,” “ marvelous power of and
; “great flexibility,” These are Satanic qualities,’
The Organ aNo describes him as coatending
with “a raging sea” of opposition—“ now
soaring to overcome it, now sinking to’under
mine Jr, now dashing in its teeth.” This is
precisely the Satanic style of warfare. We, in
(-or kindness of heart, have previouelyi spiken
of Parson Beecher’s “ pluck.” It—is Satanic
pluck which knows no fear because it has noth
ing to lose and -everything to gain. Milton
praise* Satan for the some quality. The Lon
don Times says (hut Beecher appealed tor En
glish sellUhneps. It is this human weak
ness which §at»n generally plays upon, and
this is the chord he attempted to touch when
he offered Divinity all the kingdoms of this
• world. Now are the fruits of Person Beecher’s
efforts unworthy of this satanic inspiraation.
He and such as be have wasted an ocean of
blood already in their hypocritical defence of
the rights of the black race. Desolate homes,
widow’s tears, theories of poor orphafis and the
lamentations of mothers will be his welcome
when he again sets foot upon our shores. They,
are his triumphs. He has assisted in causing
them. Kay, he has done so under the of
religion, and philanthropy, and has thus added
a new leaf Ito his blood-stained laurels. Every
one may serve Satan if he will; but it is not
every one who can serve him as Parson Beech
er docs, in the* livery of God.
Still, in spite of all this,- we have hopes that
the visit of the satanic parson to England will
help the Union cause. Indeed this could scarce
ly he otherwise,; for, by a providential arrange
ment, Satan continually.trips himself op; his
schemes wjrk against each other, and tire evil
he does’ in one place counteracts the evil in
another. Sn it will doubtless be with Parson
Beecher. Uis visit has injured England a
great deal, and may breed ..revolutions fthere;
but all this will prevent foreign Intervention in
our uffuirs and allow us to settle matters in
our own way. Thus it is that the satanic par
son in England helps to undo the work of the
satanic parson in America.
The Gihls,— The English pirl spends more
than half her waking hours in physical amuse
ments, which tend to devaljpo, invigorate and
ripen the bodily powers. She rides, Walk?,
drives nnd rows upon the water, rnns, dunces,
plays, rings, jumps the rope, (brows the ball,
hurls the quoit, draws the -how, keeps- up the
shuttle-cock and rH this, without having it
pressed forever upon- her mind , that she is
thereby wasting her time. She doss (his every
day, until it i becomes a habit which sbe.iriU
follow up through life,. Her frame, ass natural
consequence, is large,. her .muscular , system is
in better subordination, bos strength more
srtdinri»g>i4tt4 tb»;<nd><ddi taaef ofchse: tfoice
healthier. Girls, thxofeJTfci*. i -v
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